Dubarry Park, at 3698 Dubarry Road on Indianapolis’ Northeast side, has been chosen to replace Riverside Park as a stocking location for the Division of Fish & Wildlife’s Urban Fishing Program.

Riverside Park was no longer a feasible site due to water retention problems in the pond. Dubarry Park was chosen because it offers family friendly amenities like ample parking, playground equipment, restrooms, a picnic shelter and an abundance of shore fishing access at a convenient location within the city.

The Urban Fishing Program involves the stocking of catchable size channel catfish in April, May and June at select city park ponds throughout Indiana. A subset of the program parks also receive spring rainbow trout stockings. Cities included in the program include Indianapolis, Avon, Carmel, Fort Wayne, Hobart, Lafayette, Terre Haute, New Albany and Evansville.

For more information and periodic updates on the fish stockings, please see wildlife.IN.gov/7508.htm.

To view all DNR news releases, please see dnr.IN.gov.

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Media contact: Corey DeBoom, fisheries biologist, DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife, 765-342-5527, D4Fish@dnr.IN.gov.